Personal privacy is a very serious case. Your personal items should stay personal to avoid the risk of someone stealing your information. Three key ideas that can help keep your information safe are less information giving, reading guidelines before agreeing to it, and downloading less risky apps that can potential give out any information.
To start off with, you cant just give out information to anyone. You must give out only the basic information. If u decide to give out more then the information that's needed that puts you at a high risk of getting your information stolen. According to passage 1 " Social Networks Can Jeopardize Your Data Privacy" Hadley Jones says " This can be he user's first and last names, and email address, for example. Some networks go further and ask about user's interest, activities, or location. In many cases,the idea is to facilitate conversations online between users
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When downloading apps or signing up for something there are also agreements and terms. To insure that your information is safe you must read everything before agreeing. According to "Social Networks Can Jeopardize Your Data Privacy" it says " The social network itself may also try to access your email address book to invite your friends to join the network too. In other cases, a social network may be obliged to hand over its user account information to a government agency, which is also a loss of data privacy". Information u may not want the government to know may be turned right to them if they ask for it on certain sites. you will never know unless u read the terms and conditions. Also, in passage 1 "Social Networks Can Jeopardize Your Data Privacy" it says " After all, the information you give about yourself should only be shared with other users if you authorize it". It is so important for u to read guide lines because you may be authorizing without even
What kind of information might we consider private? Is it our driver's license number, social security number, Master Card and Visa numbers and ATM pin? Is it our mother's maiden name, our grades in high school, our educational history, work history and volunteer activities?
Take a look at the privacy policy of Facebook, Twitter and another Social Network of your choice! Compare them and analyze which protects the user best.
Social media companies have complete control a their users information and can do what they want with it. Now if those companies went spreading the information, no one would use their sites but they can make changes to privacy setting that make it easier for anyone to view information of other users. For example, Facebook has privacy settings so your information is not out for public viewing, but a while back they changed the default privacy setting to make all your information viewable to the public unless you changed it. There was an uproar and everyone felt they were trying to be sneaky about it because they did not give any notice when they did it, but Facebook claimed they were not trying to do anything fallacious.
When we think about privacy we all want it, we all need it, but in reality do we have it? The one thing that we as humans do is make mistakes .Without us knowing it, we unintentionally do things that might harm others and ourselves.Social media is the culprit in view of the fact that our society falls into this trap of who has the most likes,followers, etc. We post things that we shouldn't have which in fact will have a domino effect .
Beginning with the wise words of Billy Graham, “Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing”. Unfortunately, one of the risks that social media applications do not disclose to users is the high possibility of privacy invasion. Since geotags contain detailed information about users’ location data, having this data extracted by treacherous sources can be harmful for a variety of reasons. The first reason follows the fact that social media applications share user information, including location, with third-party applications that may not be as secure as popular social media platforms. For instance, Twitter until 2014 hosted user images on various domains, one of them being TwitPic. Although Twitter acquired
Problem Statement: In this white paper we will address how privacy and security can be improved on Facebook.
Privacy and security is very important to have, especially if you are going to be on the Internet and sharing your information with others. Facebook lets the user have a choice to arrange your own privacy settings based on who can access your profile, posts, news feed, and messages. Facebook requires a username and profile picture to be accessible to everyone. Earlier, this was open to everyone and now due to updates on privacy settings, you can have the option of who can search you on Facebook.
Personal privacy is such a simple phrase for such a complex idea. The definition given in the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of privacy is, “the quality or state of being apart from company or observation.” And “personal” meaning, “Relating to the person or body.” In other words: setting oneself apart from the observation or company of others. It seems simple; if someone wanted to be in private, they should be able to, right? Wrong. In today’s time, it is almost impossible to be in complete privacy, with the increasing use of technology and the naïve minds operating it, complete personal privacy is a hard thing to come by. It all starts with a couple of harmless mouse clicks, but in a matter of seconds you could be sending out information to anyone all over the world, whether you know about it or not.
Social medias have become a big part of our society now, they are being used in all aspects of our life. We are connected twenty-four hours a day, at work, school, home, shopping etc. There is a necessity, a need to be connected to these social media’s, to feel like you are a part of society. With these growing numbers in being connected to social media’s on the web, there comes a growing desire for privacy and safety. In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social media’s themselves, the dangers that arise from them, and how all these correlate to privacy.
Being involved socially online can open many doors to hackers and scammers. Posting too much information online can be a way for scammers to steal information.
Most social networks make it possible for individuals to upload their entire life to a public profile. You’re not only sharing personal information with your friends but also the friends of your friends. Personal information spreads rapidly on a Social Networking Site than through a real-life network and sometimes provides more information than we would have thought. A social networking site is defined as a network of individuals related to each other based on a common interest or a real-life connection. The popularity of these sites introduces the use of a new and easy form of communication. People spend countless hours interacting with their ‘friends’ on these sites with the help of a ‘comment’ and a ‘like’ button.
handle? Some say yes, others might disagree. Social networking was created to connect friends and family together. Now, many predators use sites such as Facebook or Myspace to find their prey. This is the source of what parents are stressing about to their children. While many who use social media are enjoying meeting new people, they are also becoming distant from contact with real people and they are involved in a very surprising and dangerous environment.
The first aspect being addressed is the problem with social network sites exposing information. Social networking has created an environment where it is nearly a duty to expose oneself. Profiles on these social websites are updated everyday with personal information such as locations, status, and future plans. Anyone can search another’s name and find information about their history, pictures, and activity. With the help of social networking sites...
The growing popularity of information technologies has significantly altered our world, and in particular, the way people interact. Social networking websites are becoming one of the primary forms of communication used by people of all ages and backgrounds. No doubt, we have seen numerous benefits from the impact of social media communication: We can easily meet and stay in touch with people, promote ourselves, and readily find information. However, these changes prompt us to consider how our moral and political values can be threatened. One common fear among users is that their privacy will be violated on the web. In her book, Privacy in Context, Helen Nissenbaum suggests a framework for understanding privacy concerns online. She focuses particularly on monitoring and tracking, and how four “pivotal transformations” caused by technology can endanger the privacy of our personal information. One website that may pose such a threat is Facebook.
Many social networks will tell you that the more you put into them (your information), the more you get out of them (connections, recommendations, etc.). However, despite the aura of privacy they try to engender, one must keep in mind that social network takes place in essentially public space, with only the barest of mechanisms providing any semblance of privacy. Even seemingly innocuous data shared with the world can be dangerous in the wrong hands.